Topic: question on connections for starter motor
in Forum: C3 Electrical


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If the wire terminals have large eyelets, they should go on the same, center terminal of the solenoid as the batt. cable, except the small black wire with the large terminal...it is a ground.
There should indeed be a smaller, purple wire on the inner terminal, closest to the engine block. The "barrel looking filter" is a fuse link...you should see several of them in that area.
If you look closer at the solenoid terminals, you'll see that the one to the outside is marked "Res", not "Red", and it is for the coil on point-type ignitions, which your '76 never had.

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The black wire should have a large eyelet on it, so a 3/8" bolt will fit thru it.
The purple wire will have a smaller eyelet on it, around 5/32" or so...
The purple wire must go on the terminal closest to the engine...the inside terminal of the solenoid, and there will be nothing on the outer terminal of the solenoid.

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btw...if you do happen to mistakenly put the black ground wire on the solenoid, it will keep your wipers from working...and a couple of other things too....

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Joel Adams
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"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"